Ahmadinejad made more people sympathetic to the Israeli cause. Without him, the opposition to Israeli policies has a more favorable face. Netanyahu has become the symbol of unreason for much of the world outside Israel and the USA.

Low faculty-student ratios for the rich kids, MOOCs for the poor kids: there is a new divide in higher education, with "trickle-down MOOCs." In the meantime, university administrations keep getting bigger and richer, driving up tuition.

In all kinds of countries, even in the harshest dictatorships, different types of national, regional, and local elections are being held to give the impression that a democracy has been established. But in so many cases, the result of this process to put into power elected pharaohs.